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How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup
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#22Awesome post!
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#23We use storenvy at grooveshark (http://www.storenvy.com/stores/3605-grooveshark and http://store.grooveshark.com/) and its super awesome. I love the emphasis they place on community as that is something we value very highly internally as well. Great work and thanks!
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#24Wow really shows how Y Combinator values co-founders... No co-founder....no soup for you! To be fair, they did get accepted based on having the whole team. Do you think you would have been excepted if you applied as just yourself?
It's hard to say. To be fair, YC never met the rest of my cofounders. I was the only one they'd ever spoken with.
- Jon (The guy who wrote this story. :)
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#25I was kind of hoping this would be a story of Yuri Milner tracking down the one that got away.
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#26Wow really shows how Y Combinator values co-founders... No co-founder....no soup for you! To be fair, they did get accepted based on having the whole team. Do you think you would have been excepted if you applied as just yourself?
It's hard to say. To be fair, YC never met the rest of my cofounders. I was the only one they'd ever spoken with. - Jon (The guy who wrote this story. :)
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#27Awesome story! I am building a startup in a small town in Nebraska (not too far from KC, MO) so I feel like I can relate to a lot of what you said.
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#29Awesome insight Jon. Thanks for the honest look back. I never found you inspirational, but you fake it well, ha.
Sorry for the bad sarcasm community. I love Jon and Janette. I met Jon way back in 2009 and he was hustling with just an idea then. As a fellow Midwest entrepreneur it's awesome to see him "graduate" from our area and succeed in the valley.
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#30Wow really shows how Y Combinator values co-founders... No co-founder....no soup for you! To be fair, they did get accepted based on having the whole team. Do you think you would have been excepted if you applied as just yourself?
I went through TechStars Seattle 2010. In watching the 9 other companies, it is obvious that the best predictor of success for my peers has been the strength of the relationships between co-founders. I'm measuring success (at this early stage) as some fuzzy function of how easy the team made it look to build a product, gain traction, raise money, and keep smiling.
I can only guess that Y Combinator really values co-founders because the patterns I've seen in 10 companies must be painfully obvious with 100 companies. That's not to say that there won't be outliners/exceptions, but when you're placing bets...